Re: Update to Fedora 42 fails in gnome-software

2025-04-18 Thread Matthew Saltzman
The solution was to disable some repos in gnome-software that were not related to Fedora or RPM Fusion (in particular, Dropbox and Microsoft Teams) which the app could not retrieve. gnome-software should report the error but didn't report anything. On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 19:00 +, Ma

Update to Fedora 42 fails in gnome-software

2025-04-16 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Most of my machines seem to be working fine, but I have one critical one where I have the notification for Fedora 42 in the gnome-software updates window, but when I click the Download button, the progress bar shows up to about 4% and then quits with no error message and reverts to showing the

Gnome Videos - No valid frames decoded before end of stream for AV1

2025-03-05 Thread lejeczek via users
Hi guys. I get that when viewing an AV1 file's properties in Gnome's Files - Gnome Video would not playback such a file. I am asking here for I wonder if this is Gnome-specific issue for... other popular media players, in Fedora, play such file just fine. Or, perhaps it's

Re: Problem on gnome-disks on f41

2024-12-04 Thread Stephen Morris
On 5/12/24 05:24, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Whenever I try to mount some additional partitions on the system drives the message box comes up saying that "Error mounting filesystem 'Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4)'". Previously a box would open allowing a passwo

Problem on gnome-disks on f41

2024-12-04 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Whenever I try to mount some additional partitions on the system drives the message box comes up saying that "Error mounting filesystem 'Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4)'". Previously a box would open allowing a password to be entered. How can the earlier behavior be

Re: Where does Gnome software remember which repos are included ?

2024-11-22 Thread old sixpack13
Stephen Morris wrote: > On 20/11/24 10:14, old sixpack13 wrote: ... > I would assume it is the same place that dnf and system-software get > there repositories from being .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d, and then > in each .repo file in that folder is a flag indicating whether the repo > is enab

Re: Where does Gnome software remember which repos are included ?

2024-11-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/11/24 10:14, old sixpack13 wrote: Where does Gnome-Software remember which repos are included/fetches update from ? a friend has troube with gnome software. only 2 flatpak repo's are active no fedora repo is shown reinstalling G-S didn't help Idea's ? I would assume

Where does Gnome software remember which repos are included ?

2024-11-19 Thread old sixpack13
Where does Gnome-Software remember which repos are included/fetches update from ? a friend has troube with gnome software. only 2 flatpak repo's are active no fedora repo is shown reinstalling G-S didn't help Idea's ? -- ___ use

Re: Running flameshot on GNOME Wayland

2024-11-06 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Will, for your precious help! Paul On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 5:09 PM Will McDonald wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 13:32, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> Is there some way of running >> >> flameshot >> >> on GNOME Wayland, other than using the terminal w

Re: Running flameshot on GNOME Wayland

2024-11-06 Thread Will McDonald
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 13:32, Paul Smith wrote: > Is there some way of running > > flameshot > > on GNOME Wayland, other than using the terminal with: > > flameshot gui > The package ships with a .desktop file: $ dnf repoquery -l flameshot | grep desk

Running flameshot on GNOME Wayland

2024-11-06 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Is there some way of running flameshot on GNOME Wayland, other than using the terminal with: flameshot gui ? Is not there a much more efficient way? Thanks in advance, Paul -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/10/24 23:09, Barry wrote: On 20 Oct 2024, at 11:07, Stephen Morris wrote: The nvidia driver for kernel 6.10.12 has stopped working again as the signing keys for some reason have been knocked out again, Wild guess. Do you need to replace the motherboard battery? Is your nvram losing it

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-20 Thread Barry
> On 20 Oct 2024, at 11:07, Stephen Morris wrote: > > The nvidia driver for kernel 6.10.12 has stopped working again as the signing > keys for some reason have been knocked out again, Wild guess. Do you need to replace the motherboard battery? Is your nvram losing its content maybe? Barry

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 16 Oct 2024, at 13:01, Stephen Morris wrote: > > The question now is what in the updates did this and why? Why is F40 causing > issue with secure boot, the offending update caused a problem and the system > upgrade from F39 to F40 caused the same issues, although with the F40 upgrade >

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-16 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 16/10/24 20:54, Barry Scott wrote: On 16 Oct 2024, at 09:55, Stephen Morris via users wrote: I issued the command modinfo kmod-nvidia-6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64 but that says it can't find that module, so how do I issue that command against the nvidia driver? modinfo works on kernel mod

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 16 Oct 2024, at 09:55, Stephen Morris via users > wrote: > > I issued the command modinfo kmod-nvidia-6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64 but that > says it can't find that module, so how do I issue that command against the > nvidia driver? modinfo works on kernel modules not RPMs. The command yo

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-16 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 16/10/24 02:01, Barry wrote: On 15 Oct 2024, at 10:49, Stephen Morris via users wrote: How do I check if the nvidia driver is actually signed? George gave the check. It maybe that the drive was built before the key was created? If so you will need to remove built driver, somewhere in /v

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-15 Thread Barry
> On 15 Oct 2024, at 10:49, Stephen Morris via users > wrote: > > How do I check if the nvidia driver is actually signed? George gave the check. It maybe that the drive was built before the key was created? If so you will need to remove built driver, somewhere in /var And tell akmods to buil

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-15 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 6:49 AM Stephen Morris via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > How do I check if the nvidia driver is actually signed? > modinfo should show entries for: sig_id: signer: sig_key: sig_hashalgo: signature: -- George N. White III -- __

Re: Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-15 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 15/10/24 20:49, Stephen Morris via users wrote: Hi,     I have built the kmod-nvidia modules manually for all 3 kernels I have installed via akmods, but the startup of KDE or Gnome from SDDM switches to a black screen and the monitor then switches into sleep mode with "No Signal Det

Nvidia Drivers from Akmods not Working at KDE/Gnome Startup

2024-10-15 Thread Stephen Morris via users
Hi,     I have built the kmod-nvidia modules manually for all 3 kernels I have installed via akmods, but the startup of KDE or Gnome from SDDM switches to a black screen and the monitor then switches into sleep mode with "No Signal Detected".     The output from modinfo -F vers

Re: KDE and Gnome Can't Start From SDDM After the Last Couple of System Updates

2024-10-14 Thread Barry Scott
e display profile to one of the ICC profiles > shown under the Colour options (sRGB). > On the next reboot SDDM could not start KDE Xorg or Wayland, they both > went to a black screen and the monitor went into sleep mode notifying of a > loss of signal. > So I tried starting

KDE and Gnome Can't Start From SDDM After the Last Couple of System Updates

2024-10-14 Thread Stephen Morris via users
ext reboot SDDM could not start KDE Xorg or Wayland, they both went to a black screen and the monitor went into sleep mode notifying of a loss of signal.     So I tried starting Gnome which booted fine. Dnf said there were a lot of updates ready to go on so I put them on. On the next reboot Gnome

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-06 Thread Andre Robatino
It just happened again. I'm using an optical mouse, and the light on the mouse was behaving normally - dim red normally, bright red when I move the mouse. Unplugging the mouse from the USB hub and plugging it directly into the PC had no effect. Ctrl-Alt-F1 recovered the GNOME se

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Oct 5, 2024, at 10:20, Tim via users wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-10-04 at 08:20 -0300, George N. White III wrote: >> There have been many changes to linux in an effort to minimize power >> consumption. This is needed to get volume orders for cubicle farms >> where power and cooling are a major c

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Michael Hennebry wrote: Did the survey distinguish between Fedora core (or whatever the term is not) and RHEL? Oops: whatever the term is now -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to s

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Barry Scott
> On 5 Oct 2024, at 15:17, Tim via users wrote: > > I have to wonder how well Fedora would really do in businesses. A six > month churn, or even yearly churn if you skip alternate releases, would > be a major pain. I worked on a successful commercial project that used Fedora. And it was grea

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Tim via users wrote: Researching do companies use Fedora? (I should have searched for do *big* companies...) "We have data on 23,511 companies that use Fedora. The companies using Fedora are most often found in United States and in the Information Technology and Services ind

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-05 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2024-10-04 at 08:20 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > There have been many changes to linux in an effort to minimize power > consumption. This is needed to get volume orders for cubicle farms > where power and cooling are a major concern. I have to wonder how well Fedora would really do

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-04 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 11:21 PM Andre Robatino wrote: > George N. White III wrote: > > > Is there any active device (KVM, wifi, bluetooth) between mouse and the > > system? > > I don't think so, I'm using a USB mouse plugged into a USB hub plugged > into the PC. > > > Make a note of the times for

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-03 Thread Andre Robatino
George N. White III wrote: > > Is there any active device (KVM, wifi, bluetooth) between mouse and the > system? I don't think so, I'm using a USB mouse plugged into a USB hub plugged into the PC. > Make a note of the times for a normal wakeup and a "wakeup". > journalctl lets you view records

Re: Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-03 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 9:05 AM Andre Robatino wrote: > I'm using GNOME with a 10-minute Screen Blank and automatic Screen Lock > disabled. Sometimes, it's not enough to move the mouse to wake up the > display. But I can Ctrl-Alt-F1, giving the gdm login screen, and when I lo

Sometimes need to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in again to resume GNOME session

2024-10-03 Thread Andre Robatino
I'm using GNOME with a 10-minute Screen Blank and automatic Screen Lock disabled. Sometimes, it's not enough to move the mouse to wake up the display. But I can Ctrl-Alt-F1, giving the gdm login screen, and when I log in, I'm back to my original session (not a new sessi

Fedora 41 GNOME 47 Test Day - Monday, August 19

2024-08-19 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All Fedora 41 GNOME 47 Test Day is happening[0] from 2024-08-19 through 2024-08-22. This is when we test the new features and version bumps of all the GNOME core apps and desktops. This time, we have some new changes coming along and we would appreciate as much testing as possible. [0] http

Re: Fedora 40: Gnome: How to increase touchpad-disabling timeout

2024-08-17 Thread Dario Lesca
Ok. No one responded, so we can deduce that this functionality, once present, has been removed in the latest versions of Gnome and now it is no longer possible to change this timeout. To do this I guess I would have to change the desktop environment. Is KDE, or another D.E. (Which? ), able to

Fedora 40: Gnome: How to increase touchpad-disabling timeout

2024-08-06 Thread Dario Lesca
whenever I type, sometimes my hand touches touchpad and mouse goes to a random place and following digits are written in the wrong place. I have activated the "disable-while-typing" setting for the touchpad in control panel and check it's enable: lesca@dodo:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.p

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
any time. Michael Hennebry: Not obvious. Presumably most GUIs would need to monitor the mouse. Presumably most GUIs would be started by the owner of the mouse. If xeyes is not allowed, presumably gnome-screenshot --include-pointer is not allowed either. Is it? If the issue is looking outside

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-26 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno gio, 25/04/2024 alle 00.10 -0400, Jeffrey Walton ha scritto: > So it looks like your fears may be unfounded at the moment. Yes, my fear is postponed to Fedora 41 (after version 40), for now. I have try on a F40 VM with Gnome + Xorg my preferred, and for me useful, app & extensi

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread Tim via users
time. Michael Hennebry: > Not obvious. > Presumably most GUIs would need to monitor the mouse. > Presumably most GUIs would be started by the owner of the mouse. > If xeyes is not allowed, presumably gnome-screenshot --include-pointer > is not allowed either. > If the issue is lookin

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
l, *I* would consider it insecure if any app could see what I was doing with the mouse at any time. Not obvious. Presumably most GUIs would need to monitor the mouse. Presumably most GUIs would be started by the owner of the mouse. If xeyes is not allowed, presumably gnome-screenshot --include-point

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2024-04-25 at 16:00 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes? My guess would be that something monitoring mouse movements when those mouse movements could be related to another app is considered insecure. Well, *I* would consider it insecure if any app could see

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread home user
On 4/25/24 3:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, George N. White III wrote: There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to implemented.  The latter may not get much attention if they aren't I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes? I second Michael's qu

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 20 Apr 2024, George N. White III wrote: There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to implemented. The latter may not get much attention if they aren't I'll bite: Wassa matter with xeyes? -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. The

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 8:00 AM Dario Lesca wrote: > Ok my notebook I work with Fedora from Core 1 with Gnome on Xorg-x11 > > I would like to continue to work with Gnome on Xorg-x11 ... even after > version 40 > > What is the best way to do that without change distro? > I&

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 7:48 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jeffrey Walton writes: > > > Wayland is still pretty immature when compared to X11. It would be nice > if > > Wayland was more mature before we are forced to switch to it. > > The question on everyone's mind is: well, here's a video card th

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 09:05:51PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: I don't know why Gnome is in the subject. I haven't seen any mention of support being dropped so I believe there's still X11 support [ .. ] Perhaps because of headlines like this: "Big News! GNOME to Drop X1

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
sma 6 is dropping support for X11. But there are some people that are going to maintain the X11 support separately so you can still use it if you want. There are still some window managers that don't support Wayland (yet) and those will continue to work with X11. I don't know why

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-22 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
On Mon Apr22'24 07:36:16AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > From: Sam Varshavchik > Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:36:16 -0400 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg +

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:01:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg vulnera

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:01:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg vulnerabilities as an excuse for dumping the

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 10:00:02AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg vulnerabilities as an excuse for dumping the Xorg/X11 system as a whole. I don't see much value is discussing the validit

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/21/24 07:28, Tim via users wrote: And if they do add all the features you want back in, you're back to using the product they've trashed to take its place (with new sets of security problems). You may as well have worked on the original product and fixed it. Wayland smacks of "I didn't inv

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-21 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2024-04-20 at 19:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to > implemented. No xeyes? Who doesn't want a pair of googlie eyes goofily staring at their mouse pointer? Actually, I do have a pair of them on this PC, I use

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users writes: I can't buy these repeatedly and ad nauseam asserted ideas of x11/xorg vulnerabilities as an excuse for dumping the Xorg/X11 system as a whole. I don't see much value is discussing the validity of those excuses. It is what it is. They don't want to work on

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer via users
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 07:48:16PM -0300, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: Barry writes: > The problem is no one is maintaining the X11 code. > > All the people that used to work on X11 moved on to wayland > after it became very clear that X11’

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
George N. White III writes: I definitely know what I'll be missing with Wayland, though. There are things Wayland won't permit (xeyes), and things that are yet to implemented.  The latter may not get much attention if they aren't considered important by large enterprises.  Colleagues in

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-20 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Barry writes: > > > The problem is no one is maintaining the X11 code. > > > > All the people that used to work on X11 moved on to wayland > > after it became very clear that X11’s design was preventing > implementation > > of features that

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Barry writes: The problem is no one is maintaining the X11 code. All the people that used to work on X11 moved on to wayland after it became very clear that X11’s design was preventing implementation of features that end users wanted. So if you stick on X11 you will be running code that is unm

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-18 Thread Barry
> On 17 Apr 2024, at 17:00, Go Canes wrote: > > Red Hat and/or Fedora reverse their decision and decide to continue > providing X11, The problem is no one is maintaining the X11 code. All the people that used to work on X11 moved on to wayland after it became very clear that X11’s design was

Re: [correction] The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Suse Shi writes: »from my exprience, fedora xfce spin is a good choice for old hardware, and I'm using fedora+xfce for desktop 10yrs+. The XFCE spin is also a pretty good choice for new hardware, too. pgpyIKEJnGyB2.pgp Description: PGP signature --

Re: [correction] The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Suse Shi
from my exprience, fedora xfce spin is a good choice for old hardware, and I'm using fedora+xfce for desktop 10yrs+. I Mike Wright 于2024年4月18日周四 10:07写道: > On 4/17/24 17:37, Mike Wright wrote: > > > From what I read X11 suffered from mission creep and a lot of features > > that should have been

Re: [correction] The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/17/24 17:37, Mike Wright wrote: From what I read X11 suffered from mission creep and a lot of features that should have been in the windowmanagers ended up in X11 and will never be in Wayland. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedora

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jeffrey Walton writes: Wayland is still pretty immature when compared to X11. It would be nice if Wayland was more mature before we are forced to switch to it.  The question on everyone's mind is: well, here's a video card that works fine with X. It's 5-10 years old, one of mine is even old

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Mike Wright
On 4/17/24 12:30, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM John Mellor wrote: With X being a completely unmaintainable mess, all new and bugfix development stopped about 2 years ago. Most disturbing is that for the last 2 years there have been essentially no security fixes as a result.

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/17/2024 05:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: There are: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap basically, the plan is to have prelim support in the next release (4.20) and refine/improve it after that. Excellent! Thanx for bringing that to my attention. --

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:36:45 -0400 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Wayland is still pretty immature when compared to X11. It would be nice if > Wayland was more mature before we are forced to switch to it. That seems to be the standard linux "improvement" path. Get rid of something everyone uses, replace

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:14 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:56:44 -0600 > Joe Zeff wrote: > > > And so will I along with everybody using Xfce as I don't know if there > > are even any plans yet to make it Wayland compatible. > > Has Wayland (or the compositor, or whatever they ima

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:30:32PM GMT, Go Canes wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM John Mellor wrote: > > > > With X being a completely unmaintainable mess, all new and bugfix > > development stopped about 2 years ago. Most disturbing is that for the > > last 2 years there have been essent

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 07:27:21AM GMT, Tim via users wrote: > On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 13:47 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > > However, given that absolutely everyone today has compute power > > on their desk and everyone has a gpu for things like compositing instead > > of what was available back when

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:56:44AM GMT, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/17/2024 11:08 AM, t_...@tiscali.it wrote: > > I'm on fedora since years. > > If they'll completely drop X11, I need to change distro. > > Any suggestion on which distro is good for continuing to > > use the "VERY OLD" X11/Mwm ? > > Tha

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 13:47 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > However, given that absolutely everyone today has compute power > on their desk and everyone has a gpu for things like compositing instead > of what was available back when X was designed Bullshit! -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mai

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM John Mellor wrote: > > With X being a completely unmaintainable mess, all new and bugfix > development stopped about 2 years ago. Most disturbing is that for the > last 2 years there have been essentially no security fixes as a result. I have heard that there have

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:56:44 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > And so will I along with everybody using Xfce as I don't know if there > are even any plans yet to make it Wayland compatible. Has Wayland (or the compositor, or whatever they imagine is responsible) got the ability yet to remap keyboard keys,

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/17/2024 11:08 AM, t_...@tiscali.it wrote: I'm on fedora since years. If they'll completely drop X11, I need to change distro. Any suggestion on which distro is good for continuing to use the "VERY OLD" X11/Mwm ? Thanks And so will I along with everybody using Xfce as I don't know if there

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread John Mellor
4-04-17 at 14:00 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: Ok my notebook I work with Fedora from Core 1 with Gnome on Xorg-x11 I would like to continue to work with Gnome on Xorg-x11 ... even after version 40 What is the best way to do that without change distro? As I understand it, X11 will still be installab

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread t_pol
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > Ok my notebook I work with Fedora from Core 1 with Gnome on Xorg-x11 > > I would like to continue to work with Gnome on Xorg-x11 ... even after > version 40 > > What is the best way to do that without change distro

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:38 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > As I understand it, X11 will still be installable, though I don't know > how long that will last. I think the only long-term hope for those of us that require capabilities that X11 provides (and Wayland does not) is that either Red Hat

Re: The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2024-04-17 at 14:00 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: > Ok my notebook I work with Fedora from Core 1 with Gnome on Xorg-x11 > > I would like to continue to work with Gnome on Xorg-x11 ... even > after > version 40 > > What is the best way to do that without change distro

The best way to still use Fedora + Xorg + Gnome ... even after version 40

2024-04-17 Thread Dario Lesca
Ok my notebook I work with Fedora from Core 1 with Gnome on Xorg-x11 I would like to continue to work with Gnome on Xorg-x11 ... even after version 40 What is the best way to do that without change distro? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 39 Workstation

Re: Fedora 40 Beta - Gnome Remote Desktop RDP

2024-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 09:56 +0100, Winfried de Heiden wrote: > Most likely, today Fedora 40 Beta will be released. Well, I couldn't > wait, so I already downloaded it yesterday. (yes you can) > > Fedora 40 will include Gnome 46 with a cool new feature: Remote Login &

Fedora 40 Beta - Gnome Remote Desktop RDP

2024-03-26 Thread Winfried de Heiden
Hi all, Most likely, today Fedora 40 Beta will be released. Well, I couldn't wait, so I already downloaded it yesterday. (yes you can) Fedora 40 will include Gnome 46 with a cool new feature: Remote Login with RDP. (https://release.gnome.org/46/) However, it does not seem to wo

gnome-disks

2024-02-27 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Attaching a drive with gnome-disks used to use the accessing user. It now brings up a drop down menu of the list of all the users in /home. Is there a configuration to tell it to use the active user? -- ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: [Test Day] [Final Call] GNOME 46 Apps

2024-02-26 Thread Luna Jernberg
t; Hey Flocks, > > > > This is a gentle reminder for contributors testing GNOME 46[0] to > > submit their contributions > > by EOD. We will wrap up the test week and export the results[1] to the > > wiki after > > the test day ends. > > > > [0] &g

Re: [Test Day] [Final Call] GNOME 46 Apps

2024-02-26 Thread Luna Jernberg
Have helped out as much as i could been sick and low on energy some of the weeks, and will try to help out later today with the rest Den mån 26 feb. 2024 kl 07:03 skrev Sumantro Mukherjee : > > Hey Flocks, > > This is a gentle reminder for contributors testing GNOME 46[0] to &g

[Test Day] [Final Call] GNOME 46 Apps

2024-02-25 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey Flocks, This is a gentle reminder for contributors testing GNOME 46[0] to submit their contributions by EOD. We will wrap up the test week and export the results[1] to the wiki after the test day ends. [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2024-02-22_Fedora_40_GNOME_46_Apps [1] https

[Test Day] GNOME 46 Desktop & Core Apps

2024-02-19 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All, We're excited to invite you to the GNOME 46 Test Week! This is a unique opportunity to get early access to new features, identify bugs, and contribute to improving GNOME's usability and stability. Your participation is vital to ensure GNOME 46 meets our community's hig

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Running a game as root?! Not a good idea! Frederic Muller: > Well it didn't run either way... hence my question. As I said I thought > it would be the executable in a kind of database. In general, you do everything that affects *you* as your own user. Applications, your screensaver

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread Frederic Muller
On 04/12/2023 13:05, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2023-12-03 at 21:23 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: It's because you're using sudo and the root user doesn't have a dbus session to Gnome. If you really have to use sudo (why?), try putting it after the inhibit command. gnome-sessi

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread Frederic Muller
On 04/12/2023 12:23, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/3/23 21:18, Frederic Muller wrote: On 03/12/2023 19:45, olivares33561 via users wrote: On Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 at 6:37 AM, olivares33561 via users wrote: If you can please try $ gnome-sessikn-inhibit command-to-run-your-app gnome-session

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2023-12-03 at 21:23 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > It's because you're using sudo and the root user doesn't have a dbus > session to Gnome. > > If you really have to use sudo (why?), try putting it after the inhibit > command. > gnome-session-inhibit su

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/3/23 21:18, Frederic Muller wrote: On 03/12/2023 19:45, olivares33561 via users wrote: On Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 at 6:37 AM, olivares33561 via users wrote: If you can please try $ gnome-sessikn-inhibit command-to-run-your-app gnome-session-inhibit. The command was a typo sorry

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread Frederic Muller
website and unfortunately the screen locks after 5 minutes ... forcing to quickly press a key (hoping it won't do anything unexpected with the simulator) and ... usually crash. Is there a way to disable the lockscreen just for this app under GNOME? Thank you.

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread olivares33561 via users
ter 5 minutes > > ... forcing to quickly press a key (hoping it won't do anything > > unexpected with the simulator) and ... usually crash. > > > > Is there a way to disable the lockscreen just for this app under GNOME? > > > > Thank you. > > >

Re: Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread olivares33561 via users
y the screen locks after 5 minutes > ... forcing to quickly press a key (hoping it won't do anything > unexpected with the simulator) and ... usually crash. > > Is there a way to disable the lockscreen just for this app under GNO

Disabling lockscreen in GNOME for specific apps?

2023-12-03 Thread Frederic Muller
e the lockscreen just for this app under GNOME? Thank you. Fred -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/pr

Re: Strange problem with phpmyadmin after recent dnf update?? Was GNOME Shell integration

2023-11-14 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
gt; > Had been using firefox to access phpMyAdmin on a system to > update databases. > > Just now get the above error message. > > Have found that if I run firefox from root user rather than my user > it works fine and connects and allows same processes that I was >

Re: Gnome: I'm looking for a way to make a button on tray or top bar that does what alt-tab function key does

2023-09-09 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno sab, 09/09/2023 alle 07.49 +0930, Tim via users ha scritto: > Or mouse wheel?  If you hover the mouse anywhere over the window list > and scroll the mouse wheel you can whiz between the windows. Also mouse wheel is good for a new extension. But now none that I know do that. > > But if

Re: Gnome: I'm looking for a way to make a button on tray or top bar that does what alt-tab function key does

2023-09-09 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno ven, 08/09/2023 alle 17.59 -0400, Jonathan Billings ha scritto: > Other than security, better features like fractional scaling, and the > simple matter that X11 is on its way out… When X11 will way out Wayland will be completed and will do everything that X11 now does. > > X11/Xorg is o

Re: Gnome: I'm looking for a way to make a button on tray or top bar that does what alt-tab function key does

2023-09-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/08/2023 03:59 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: That’s fine, but yours isn’t a general solution because Fedora defaults to using Wayland. Even if you're using a DE that isn't yet Wayland compatible, such as Xfce? If so, I'll be looking for a distro that isn't going to force me to abandon m

Re: Gnome: I'm looking for a way to make a button on tray or top bar that does what alt-tab function key does

2023-09-08 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-09-08 at 17:58 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: > I'm looking for an extension (which as far as I know doesn't exist yet) > with a top bar icon that allow me to do what alt-tab do with one click > or multiple clicks on it. Or mouse wheel? If you hover the mouse anywhere over the window list

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